Category Archives: Inspirational


Quote: Douglas Harding

June 13, 2008 – 11:43 am

Refusing To Separate My Consciousness From Yours
Truly it is one of the unforeseen pleasures of the 1st-Person life to gaze unabashed into the faces of one’s friends, without feeling or thinking anything in particular, and just see them for what they always were - things for looking at and never for looking out of. This […]

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Quote: Ken Wilber

June 3, 2008 – 10:08 am

Two Ken Wilber Quotes -
If you are having a dream and you think it’s real, it can get very scary. Say you are dreaming you are tightrope walking across Niagara Falls. If you fall off, you plunge to your death. So you are walking very slowly, very carefully. Then suppose you start lucid dreaming, and […]

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Turtle Buddha Creates Kindness

June 2, 2008 – 11:36 am

Enlightenment and epiphanies can show up in some pretty strange ways. The Buddha found it under a Boddhi tree, Nelson Mandela in prison and spiritual guru Ram Dass through psychedelic drugs. Little did I know, mine would arrive in the form of a hard-shelled reptile simply trying to cross the road — a turtle.
Shhhh, I’m […]

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Quote: Lao Tzu

May 6, 2008 – 7:29 am

The supreme good is like water,
which nourishes all things without trying to.
It is content with the low places that people disdain.
Thus it is like the Tao.
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don’t try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be […]

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The Practical Importance Of Seeing

April 21, 2008 – 12:58 pm

I wanted to share a dispatch from headless.org.   Richard Lang runs the website, and offers a e-course called Reflections - A Course in Seeing.  This is #88:
It would be difficult to overstate the practical importance of this discovery, its consequences for everyday living. All alienation, all separation, the many-sided threat of hostile things and […]

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